How tall is Kendall Jenner?

Kendall Jenner's height: 180 cm (5′11″)

Kendall Jenner is listed at 180 cm (about 5′11″), the figure this site uses. For a model, height is a working measurement rather than a matter of trivia: agencies publish it on a model's card alongside bust, waist, hip and shoe sizes so that casting directors can match models to garments and runway lineups. Jenner's height on Wikidata is drawn directly from her profile on models.com, the industry database that tracks fashion models and their agencies, and Wikipedia gives the same 5′11″ (1.80 m).

Some outlets give 5′10″ instead, which is a difference of one rounding step: 180 cm is 5′10.9″, so it can honestly be written either way depending on whether you round or truncate. Because her height is part of her professional record, there is little real uncertainty about it.

A model's height in context

Women's fashion modeling, and runway work in particular, favors height more than almost any other profession. Runway samples are cut for tall, slim models so that a single garment can be shown on many women in a season, and casting directors tend to look for consistency in a lineup. Agencies commonly look for women in roughly the 5′9″ to 6′0″ range for runway work, though editorial, commercial and beauty work are more flexible.

At 180 cm, Jenner sits in the middle of that range, tall enough for any runway yet not so tall that she stands out in a lineup. That versatility helped her move from commercial work as a teenager into high fashion. Her career milestones, as summarized on Wikipedia and in Forbes coverage:

The Forbes rankings are the clearest measure of her standing in the industry. Gisele Bündchen had topped the list every year from 2005 through 2016, and Jenner, at 22, displaced her in 2017 with estimated earnings of $22 million, then held the top spot again in 2018 at $22.9 million. She has appeared on covers and in editorials for numerous international editions of Vogue and has walked for major houses at the New York, London, Milan and Paris fashion weeks.

Kendall Jenner next to fellow models

The table compares Jenner with other well-known models using heights stored on this site. Model heights are often more reliable than celebrity heights because they appear on agency cards.

A few patterns stand out. Jenner shares the 180 cm listing with Gigi Hadid, her close friend and fellow member of the generation of "Instagram-era" models who rose to fame in the mid-2010s, and with two of the defining supermodels of earlier decades, Gisele Bündchen and Claudia Schiffer. That puts her in very established company. Karlie Kloss, at 188 cm, is one of the tallest top models of her era and stands about 8 cm above Jenner.

At the other end, Kate Moss, at 172 cm, famously succeeded despite being shorter than most runway models of the 1990s, and Emily Ratajkowski and Hailey Bieber, at 170 to 171 cm, built careers largely in editorial and commercial work. Jenner's height gave her more flexibility than those models had on the runway.

The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, in which Jenner walked in 2015, 2016 and 2018, is a useful reference point: its lineups were known for very tall models, and at 180 cm Jenner fit comfortably within them alongside models such as Adriana Lima.

You can compare any of these models with the height difference calculator.

The tallest of the Kardashian-Jenner sisters

Jenner was born on November 3, 1995, in Los Angeles, to Kris Jenner and Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic decathlon champion. She has a younger sister, Kylie, and eight older half-siblings, including Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Rob Kardashian. She was 11 when Keeping Up with the Kardashians premiered in October 2007, so much of her growth into a 180 cm adult happened on camera.

Using heights stored on this site, she is the tallest of the sisters listed:

The family offers an unusually wide spread of heights. Kendall and her half-sister Kourtney are about 25 cm apart, more than the difference between the average American man and the average American woman. Her height is often linked by fans to Caitlyn Jenner, an Olympic athlete who is listed at 185 cm on this site, and height is strongly heritable: twin studies, as summarized in standard references, put the heritability of adult height at roughly 60 to 80 percent. But heritability describes populations, not individual families, so no single parent "explains" any one person's height. This site does not list heights for Kris Jenner, Kylie Jenner or Rob Kardashian, because reliable figures are not available.

Growing up tall on camera

Because Keeping Up with the Kardashians began when Jenner was 11, viewers watched her grow from a child into a 180 cm adult over the show's early seasons. Her early modeling career overlapped with that growth: she signed with Wilhelmina in July 2009, when she was 13, and Wikipedia's account notes some disagreement between sources over whether she was 13 or 14 when she began. Teen girls usually reach their adult height within a couple of years after puberty begins, so by the time she signed with The Society Management at 18 she had long since reached her full height.

That timing matters for models. Agencies that sign young teens look for girls who are already tall for their age and likely to reach runway height, which is why scouts pay close attention to height at 13 or 14. Jenner's early commercial work, including a Forever 21 shoot in 2009 that featured on the family's show, came before her move into high fashion, and her eventual 180 cm frame made that transition straightforward. For parents curious about how adult height is estimated from childhood measurements, the height calculator explains the published prediction methods and their limits.

How 180 cm compares with American women

The CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which measures thousands of Americans each cycle, provides the best benchmark. In the August 2021 to August 2023 survey, American women aged 30 to 39, Jenner's age group in 2026, averaged 162.5 cm, and the 95th percentile was 172.9 cm.

At 180 cm, Jenner is about 7 cm above the 95th percentile for American women her age, well inside the tallest few percent. She is also about 4 cm taller than the average American man in the same age group. In everyday terms, that means she is taller than most of the men she meets before she puts on heels, and in fashion-week heels of 10 cm or more she would stand around 190 cm.

The NCD-RisC birth-cohort data on the average height in the United States page tell the same story: American women born in the mid-1990s average 163.5 cm, about 16.5 cm shorter than Jenner. The height percentile calculator shows exactly where any height falls in the NHANES distribution.

Height, heels and how models are photographed

A model's real height and apparent height can differ a lot, and Jenner's career shows why:

• Runway heels. Runway shoes commonly add 8 to 12 cm, putting a 180 cm model at roughly 188 to 192 cm on the catwalk.
• Camera angle. Runway photographers usually shoot from the end of the catwalk at a low angle, which lengthens the legs and exaggerates height.
• Street style. Off-duty photos, in flats or sneakers, often surprise fans because they show models closer to their real height, especially next to friends who are also models.
• Group photos. At events, models are frequently photographed next to celebrities who are much shorter, which can make a 180 cm woman look closer to 6′3″.

These effects explain why some fans guess Jenner is taller than 5′11″ and others, seeing casual photos, guess shorter. The agency figure of 180 cm remains the reliable one.

What 180 cm means in practice

For a woman, 180 cm is tall in nearly every country in the world. In the Netherlands, which has the tallest women in the NCD-RisC data, women born in 1996 average about 168.7 cm, so Jenner would still stand more than 11 cm above the Dutch average. In the United States she is taller than well over 95 out of 100 women her age, since the NHANES 95th percentile for women aged 30 to 39 is 172.9 cm, about 7 cm below her height. Even among American men in that age group, she is taller than roughly two in three.

That height has practical effects, from clothing to everyday spaces. Standard women's sizing is cut for women several inches shorter, which is one reason models often wear sample sizes made specifically for tall frames. The 180 cm conversion page breaks the number down precisely and lists other well-known people at the same height.

Summary

Kendall Jenner stands 180 cm (5′11″), a figure taken from her professional modeling profile and matched by Wikipedia. That is the same height as Gigi Hadid, Gisele Bündchen and Claudia Schiffer, about 8 cm shorter than Karlie Kloss, and about 5 cm taller than Bella Hadid. Within her family she is the tallest of the sisters, about 21 cm taller than Kim Kardashian and 25 cm taller than Kourtney Kardashian, though 5 cm shorter than her parent Caitlyn Jenner. Compared with American women her age, she is above the 95th percentile and about 4 cm taller than the average American man of the same age. Her height placed her squarely in the runway sweet spot, a foundation for a career that made her the world's highest-paid model in 2017. She then held that top spot again in 2018. To see her next to any celebrity in the catalog, including models without their own page here, use the 3D height comparison tool.